Bidspirit auction | DANON, MEIR BENJAMIN MENACHEM. Be'er

DANON, MEIR BENJAMIN MENACHEM. Be'er Basadeh [super-commentary to Rashi and Mizrachi on the Torah]. First Edition. With lengthy inscription in Hebrew and Ladino, signed by the author to R. Isaac Farhi (with his autograph signature on f. 2r). With introduction concerning the economic situation of the Jews of Jerusalem. ff. (3), 180. Morocco-backed boards. Folio. Vinograd, Jerusalem 55. Jerusalem, Yisrael Bak, 1846. The Isaac Farhi copy (here entitled with the honorific “Sar VeTafsar.”) The Farhi family were a dynasty of both financiers and rabbinic scholars, long resident in Damascus. The author, R. Meir Danon (d. 1849), was the Rabbi of Sarajevo, Bosnia. He later settled in Jerusalem, where he served as a Dayan in the Beth Din of the Rishon LeZion, R. Chaim Avraham Gaguine.